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City names Apps Challenge finalists

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on Mar 14, 2014

The city announced Thursday evening the 10 Palo Alto residents whose ideas for mobile applications, from a social network for dog owners to one that directs people to the nearest available parking spaces, were selected as finalists in Palo Alto's first Apps Challenge.

We also encourage any of you who care about animals and love tech to consider joining our team! It will be a lot of fun, and worth doing.

Our team deeply cares about homeless pets, so all of our proposals are ways to use tech to improve the welfare of shelter animals, starting with the Palo Alto Animal Services (PAAS) shelter. We chose two major areas where we felt tech could make a major difference:
 Improved marketing and visibility of adoptable animals in the shelter
 Increased revenue for the shelter

Here is a summary of each of them with our two finalists apps at the top of the list. Note that while we are initially focused on PAAS, all of our apps could be used by shelters around the country, even the world:

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